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Rhythmic Tranquillity. In Utica, N.Y., where Davies was born 100 years ago, a retrospective collection of his art is now on show. The 98 works at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute include oils, watercolors, two tapestries, and some small bronzes. Some of the oils, like Crescendo (see color), are filled with the slender nudes which Davies used not so much to people his landscapes as to punctuate his rhythmic compositions. And the tranquil quiet of Our River Hudson seems removed by much more than half a century from the birth of the brash modern movement that Davies supported so willingly...
...BENJAMIN PROCTOR Canisteo...
...combat the noise, earplugs are partially effective. The most common are wax stopples, which can be heated and moistened in the palm just before the exam, until they are pliable enough to stuff in the ear. The palm is usually quite effective for this at the time. If the proctor's directions are then muffled, the plug can be twisted until it comes...
...least two occasions during the first four days of exams, proctors have enforced astonishingly idiotic rules concerning leaving the room. With three proctors and some 150 students in Geological Lecture Room on Friday morning, only one student at a time was allowed to leave for any reason because smoking is prohibited in any part of the building and the head proctor didn't want to make one of his warm-blooded colleagues stand out in the cold. Later, during the last half hour, he discovered that he could station a man inside and let him oversee his charges through...
...Office of Tests has informed the Crimson that their policy continues now as ever before: after the first hour and a half, students are permitted to come and go as they please, with cigarette smokers under the surveillance of a proctor. The Harvard examination system, according to its spokesman, is still "no country club...